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Sure, if by matured, you mean that zuck has refined his ability to harvest and use personal data without any sort of qualms. What Facebook has become is techni
by allthenews 9y ago
Sure, if by matured, you mean that zuck has refined his ability to harvest and use personal data without any sort of qualms.
What Facebook has become is technically brilliant, but the "dumb fuck" attitude shows no signs of having lessened.
- TAForObvReasons 9y agoMore importantly, those views were of the early days of the company. It's very likely that the early hires and executives also shared the same views. Unless everyone in that cohort had a change of heart or the entire executive slate was turned over, the company likely reflects the same views about the "dumb fucks"
- scruple 9y agoI think more importantly is that it was the prevalent attitude when potentially / probably core systems were being developed which are undoubtedly still in place, in some form, today, and that also very likely have carried forward those same biases. If you have little respect for your users outwardly then I'm sure it reflects itself in the code. I mean, isn't this how we've ended up with GDPR in the first place?